‘If you would actually study history then you wouldn’t have to look so foolish’
History is always written by the victors. I doubt very much that the central reason was slavery. Explain why blacks took up arms for the South. Explain why the first slave owner in the U.S. was a black man.
Look around you and you can easily see that the wrong side won. Look at what the Federal government has become. We either are or will all be slaves shortly, think we should pay ourselves reparations in advance?
Try reading article one section nine of the confederate constitution
Well, technically, this wasn't in "the US." It was in very early colonial Virginia.
Look around you and you can easily see that the wrong side won. Look at what the Federal government has become.
Don't disagree as to present conditions.
But our descent into Progressive Hell didn't start in earnest till the late 19th century, with massive acceleration during WWI, the 30 and the 60s, and the causes that drove it had little or nothing to do with those that led to the Civil War.
Because B happened after A, it is a logical fallacy to therefore conclude that is A had not happened, neither would B.
I think you can make an excellent case that a CSA victory would have led to earlier increases in central power, only in two countries instead of one.
Let's see. Two antagonistic countries glaring at each other across a border thousands of miles long. Yeah, there's a formula for peace and prosperity and decentralized government. /s
Most likely scenario would have been militarization and centralization in both USA and CSA. Certainly that's what happened in Europe between 1865 and 1914.